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THE NEWS AND FARMER.
J. W. WHITE, Editor and Proprietor.
VOLUME XX.
WAR TAX REPEALED
Startling Coup of the Democratic
Minority In the House.
UNANIMOUS CONSENT SPRUNG
Republicans and Democrats Applauded
When Bill Was Read and Unani
mous Vote Was Given,'27B
Members Voting Aye.
A Washington special says: There
was a large attendance on the floor of
tlje house and the galleries Monday In
anticipation of the debate on the bill
to repeal the war revenue taxes.
Just prior to the assemblage of
the house the committee on rules
met and agreed upon the form of a
special rule for the consideration cf
the bill, by the terms of which it
should be brought to a vote at 4
o’clock Tuesday.
After some minor business had been
cleared away Mr. Dalzell, of Pennsyl
vania, from the committee on rules,
presented the special order agreed
upon by that committee. Mr. Dalzell
explained the effect of the rule. This
measure, he said, was presented to re
deem a pledge made when the war
revenue taxes were imposed that when
the necessity for them ceased they
would be repealed. This was a meas
ure on which, he took it, there was
practically unanimity of sentiment on
both sides of the house. It was a
simple repeal measure and it was
deemed wise that it should be brought
to a vote without complication on the
extraneous issues.
At the conclusion of this brief
statement, Mr. Dalzell yielded thirty
minutes to Mr. Underwood, of Ala
bama, also of the committee on rules.
The Alabama member protested
against the rule, not because, he said,
it provided for the consideration of a
bill to reduce the taxation, but because
it prevented individual members from
exercising their own judgment or car
rying out the wishes of their constitu
ents as to what portion of the execs
sive taxes should be repealed. As an
instance of a tax which it was not ad
visable to repeal, he cited the inheri
tance tax, a tax which, he said, was
levied on a class that was not reached
by other taxation.
Mr. Underwood said he did not think
a general tariff revision should be
made, because it would unsettle pres
ent conditions and might lead to dis
order. He referred to the stagnation
in business which existed pending the
excitement of both the Wilson and
Dingley bill to support his statement.
He thought the proper method of re
ducing duties at this time was through
reciprocity agreements made in pursu
ance of congressional enactment and
he sent to the clerk’s desk and had
read an amendment representing his
ideas in this particular.
Mr. Ball, of Texas, denounced the
rule as but another step in the parlia
mentary evolution by which individual
ism in the house was being crushed
out and a few men were enthroned as
the autocrats to dominate its will.
The rule was adopted 158 to 120.
Thereupon, Mr. Richardson, the minor
ity leader, arose.
“I arise to make a request for unan
imous consent,” said he. “In view of
the fact that we are not permitted to
amend the pending bill and in view of
the fact that two days’ debate is abso
lutely fruitless under this rule, I ask
unanimous consent that the bill be put
upon its passage now.” (Applause on
both sides.)
The speaker put the request.
Members looked at each other with
amazement. Not a sound was heard.
"There is no objection," announced
the speaker as he brought h\s gavel
down.
“The clerk will read the bill.”
Both sides of the house joined in
the ringing applause that followed.
The clerk began to read the bill.
The verbal committee amendments
to the bill were agreed to and the ayes
and nays were taken on its passage.
passed unanimously by the house, 278
members voting aye.
PRESIDENT HELPS HOBSON.
Writes Special Message Recommend
ing Merrimac Hero's Retirement.
The president Monday sent to the
senate a message recommending the
retirement of Naval Constructor Rich
mond P. Hobson, and in accordance
with this recommendation Senator
Gallinger immediately introduced a
bill providing for Mr. Hobson’s trans
fer to the retired list. In his message
the president gives as his reason the
trouble that Mr. Hobson has had since
1900 with his eyes, and recites the
history of that trouble.
CUBA COMES NEXT.
belief For Islanders Will Be Pushed
By Friends In Congress.
A Washington special says: With
the passage of the war revenue reduc
tion bill in the house Monday informal
plans are being considered on both
sides of the chamber for the consider
ation of the Cuban reciprocity question
now pending before the ways and
mdans committee.
CREAfI OF NEWS
J Summary of the Moat ||
■£ Important Daily j;
+ Happenings Tersely Told. > >
—Mrs. James M. Duncan, of Atlan
ta, is held upon coroner’s warrant
charging her with the murder of her
husband.
—All of the pleas in abatement
made by the defendants in the Greene
and Gaynor case in Savannah were
overruled by Judge Speer, who, in his
ouinion, declared that all of the pleas
were bad.
—At a largely attended meeting of
the Confederate Veterans of Camp
Falkner, in Birmingham Monday night,
initial steps were taken towa:'d- the
building of home for the Alabama sur
vivors of the civil war.
—The fiercest snow storm since the
memorable blizzard of 1888 is raging
in New York city and throughout the
northeast.
—Postmaster W. H. Smyth, of At
lanta, died Monday after a brief ill
ness from grip.
—By a unanimous vote the house
has passed the bill repealing the war
revenue taxes.
—The house republicans, in caucus,
have decided to appoint a committee
to investigate election laws in thei
south.
—The Atlanta city council passed
the ordinance making the chief of po
lice the head of his department over
the veto of the mayor. This is the
first time that any veto of Mayor
Mims has been overridden.
—Latest reports indicate that 2,000
persons, mostly women and children,
were killed by the earthquake in Rus
sia.
—Forty thousand men, aided by wo
men, are on a strike at Barcelona,
Spain. Troops have fired on the riot
ers, killing and wounding many.
—James Duncan, the Atlanta police
man who wa# shot by his wife Satur
day, February 8, died at an early hour
Monday morning at the Grady hospital
—The most important gathering of
negroes in the United States will be
the annual conference in connection
with Booker Washington’s school,
which begins on Wednesday in Tuske
gee, Ala.
—Two persons were killed and five
injured in a collision of trains near
Litchfield, Ills., Sunday.
-—President Roosevelt’s son, who
has been so ill with pneumonia, con
tinues to improve.
—Grand Army men at Binghampton,
N. Y., cheered at the mention of the
names of Robert E. Lee and Stonewall
Jackson by General J. B. Gordon while
lecturing there Saturday night.
—Martial law has been proclaimed
at Trieste. Austria, where troops fired
on and killed twelve strikers last Fri
day.
—An important conference was held
at the white house Saturday between
the republican part, leaders and the
president. The legislative program
and the Schley case was discussed.
—A young girl named Estelle Swan
was found in a cabin near Rome, Ga.,
Saturday stabbed and badly burned.
A man named Barnes, claiming to be
her husband, is now under arrest.
—Arguments upon the pleas in
the Greene and Garnor trial in Savan
nah were completed Saturday, and the
fate of the pleas now rests with Judge
Emory Speer.
—The Bank of Warrenton, Ga., clos
ed its doors Saturday, assigning for
the benefit of its creditors. It is said
the bank will pay in full. Poor collec
tions caused the closing.
—Prince Henry’s ship arrived at
Southampton Sunday. After a brief
stop she sailed to Cherbourg and then
proceeded on her way to New York.
—John Hyde, government statisti
cian, of Omaha, has filed $30,000 dam
age suit against H. and B. Bcfcr, a cot
ton firm of New Orleans, based on
telegram they sent touching his crop
estimate.
—A man alleged to be Dr. A. M.
lay, alias Dr. D. M. Milton, alias W.
M. Smith, wanted by the Pinkerton de
{ectfvE’agency'Tor forgerl®?~fff“‘sn££B#r>
Florida, Mississippi and other states,
was arrested at Kathleen, Ga., Friday.
—Colonel James Smith, of Ogle
thorpe, Ga., notifies his friends that
his definite announcement for gover
nor will be given out in the next few
days.
—lnterest in Saturday’s session of
the woman’s suffrage convention was
heightened by the fact that it marked
the eighty-second birthday of Miss Su
san B. Anthony.
—Three negro children burned to
death in Lenoir county, North Caroli
na. Their parents had locked them
in the house while they went to wtrk
in a field a mile away.
—The Boer delegates left The Hague
Saturday. It is claimed they have de
parted for the United States.
—A great bowlder rolled against a
train in Arkansas Friday, scattering
the cars and killing seven persons in
stantly. Fourteen others were badly
wounded.
—Mrs. Lee, of Memphis, Tenn., de
clined to let a physician treat her
child that was badly and probably fa
tally burned, saying the Christian
Scientists would take care of it.
—British troops were caught in a
trap by the Boers Sunday and the red
coats lost heavily.
A Weekly Newspaper Devoted to the Material and Intellectual Advancement of the County.
LOUISVILLE. GA.. THURSDAY. FEBRUARY 20. 1002.
ROAST FOR FLUNKEYS
representative Wheeler Creates
Sensation in the House.
ANGLOMANIACS ARE FLAYED
Embassy to Coronation and Reoeption
Planned For Visit of Prince
Henry Savagely Attacked
By Kentuckian.
The monotony of a private pension
day in the enlivened Fri
day by a very sensational speech
from Mr. Wheeler, of Kentucky, in de
nunciation of what he denominated
“flunkeyisui” to foreign countries. He
took the recent statements emanating
from continental cabinets regarding
the attitude of Great Britain during
the Spanish war as a text for a whole
sale attack upon the trend re
cent diplomacy. In the course of his
remarks he severely scored Secretary
Hay, and declared that If Lord Paunce
fote had sought, as was alleged, to
circumvent us during the war of
IS9B, the sooner he was shipped across
•the seas the better. He also took oc
casion to criticise the president for
his reported intention to send his
daughter to the coronation of King Ed
ward, and to protest against the offi
cial reception of Prince Henry.
His speech aroused the house to a
high pitch of excitement, and elicited
from Mr. Boutelle, of Illinois, a spirit
ed defense of Secretary Hay, whom ho
eulogized in highest terms. Several
other other members of the republi
can side took a hand, and later in the
afternoon Mr. Grosvenor, of Ohio, in
a twenty-minute speech took Mr.
Wheeler to task for his “inopportune
protest,” and rehearsed the history of
the visit of the prince of Wales to
this country in 1860 and his reception
by President Buchanan.
Until 1896, ho said, all Americans
had glorified in the splendid isolation
of the republic and its determination
to hold aloof from foreign entangling
alliances. Less than five years ago,
he declared, a president “egged on by
the pitiable flunky in the state depart
ment” had stretched his arms across
the seas in adulation to the people of
Great Britain and today the govern
ment was huggipg to its bosom a na
tion that since the battle of Yorktown
had systematically and persistently
plotted our downfall.
He sneered at the “shoulder-strap
ped gold lace flunkeys” who were to
be dispatched across the Atlantic to
bcr.d the knee to and kiss the hand of
the English king, whose government,
he declared, had attempted to form a
coalition of European governments to
thwart us while we were seeking to
str'ke the shackles from Cuba.
Turning to England’s war in South
Africa, he denounced her tyranny and
the part we had in it in allowing war
material to be shipped from our
shores. If half that was said of “this
man Pauncefote” was true, he declar
ed, he ought to be shipped across the
water, and “the soooner the better.”
Referring to the report that a mem
ber of the president’s family was to at
tend the coronation, Mr. Wheeler said
it was perhaps unbecoming to allude
to it. Nevertheless, he said, he con
sidered it “most unfortunate and un
precedented and to be lamented by ev
ery liberty-loving American.”
It was but one more link in the
chain. Mr. Wheeler then turned to the
prospective visit of Prince Henry.
With a gesture of contempt he declar
ed that "European maniacs were fall
ing over each other” to see the “little
Dutchman.” There were thousands of
Americans following the plow, he said,
who are as honest and as noble as he.
Why, he asked, should the American
people give heed to this flunkeyism of
the present administration. We should
treat our visitors politely, but why
“fall down and worship them.”
The whole house was aroused by
Mr. Wheeler’s philippic. Several
the democratic side burst into
applause. '' K ~“ '—- —s
As he was concluSr-Sg Mr. Grosven
or, of Olrio, asked if Mr. Wheeler hati
been living at the time of the ' ! sit of
Eafayette, as the representative of the
king of France, whether he would
have opposed the reception accorded
the Frenchman by Washington.
“I should have been proud to receive
the Marquis de Lafayette,” replied Mr.
Wheeler. “He helped to fight for our
liberties.”
Thousand Barrels Daily.
A dispatch from Barbourville, Ky.,
says: The Atlantic and Pacific Oil
Company, of New York city, has just
turned its Richland gusher in tanks
and its flow exceeds 1,000 barrels
daily, making it the best refining oil
well drilled the past year.
AIMED AT CHRISTIAN SCIENTISTS
Ohio Legislature Passes Law Inimical
to the New Cult.
The Ohio house of representatives
has passed a bill aimed at Christian
Scientists. It provides that any pa
rent or guardian who shall wilfully
deprive any sick child under the age
of 16 of the service of a physi
cian be hied from $lO to S2OO or
be ImprTSoned for six months, or both.
NINE MEN KIOTN TO lit DEAD,
‘J
Clash Between Posse and Mountain
eers More Fatal Than First
Reports Indicated,
Later advia?s Irom Middlesboro,
Ky. .regarding tb'e bloody battle be
tween a sheriff’s.fosse and a gang
of mountainee rs, states that although
the scene, of the fight between the
sheriff’s posse and Lee Turner’s men
is less than, four miles from Middles
boro, it is stl 11 imnos-.ible to ascertain
the exact ca sualtles on the Turner
side, it is known that nine men, all
told, are dea.d, bijt it is not known
definitely how many men. were in the
log cabin, de;
"ris a' saloon, when the officers made
the attack and burned it, and it may
be that several were killed or wound
ed and were consumed in the flames.
Those who escaped into the Cumber
land mountains are still defiant. The
dead are:
Deputy Sheriff Charles Cecil Posse
man John Doyle, and the following
mountaineers: Charles Dye, a ne
gro; Marsh WiSson, Perry Watson,
Frank Johnson,, bartender; Mike
Welch, Jim Prado, Joe Hopper.
There are reports of wounded Tur
ner men being taken care of in the
mountains.
Fight Caused By Mules.
A month ago some mules owned by
Turner were levied upon because ot
a debt due Giles Colson. A week, ago
i Turner, with a bodyguard, went to
Virginia, where the mules had been
taken, and regained them. While cs
| caping, Moore McCreary, one of Tur
ner's hands, was mortally wounded.
Wednesday afternoon Deputy Sheriff
Thompson, of Bell county, swore in a
posse of fifty citizens of Middlesboro
to arrest Turner and the men impli
cated in the Virginia raid.
Turner heard of this and gathered
the mountaineers into his fortress for
.his defense.
When the posse arrived a demand
■ for surrender was refused and firing
began at once. Deputy Sheriff Cecil
was killed in front of Turner’s gate.
John Doyle, a member of the posse,
endeavored to secure Cecil’s body and
: was shot dead.
[ Enraged by this the posse set fire
, to the wooden iortress. The flames
I spread rapidly and a steady stream of
j bullets was poured into the barricade,
resulting in the known deaths of sev
en other men. Finally a, number of
Turner’s men fled to the mountains.
Trouble is expected, however, before
any arrests are made on the charge
of murdering Cecil and Doyle. At
last accounts Lee Turner, with his
brother, “The General," and a large
fmree, were patrolling the district
.around the ruins of the quarter house
and will allow no one from Middles
iboro to pass to the Mingo mines or
telsewhere. Meantime the officers are
reticent as to their next move.
“TED OUT OF THE WOODS.”
iSuch Is Joyful Remark of President
Regarding His Boy.
President Roosevelt left Groton,
Mass., for Washington Thursday af
ternoon on a special train. As the
.thain started, the people at the sta
itTron cheered lustily and the president
ibowed his thanks from the platform.
Just before his depature President
‘Roosevelt, accompanied by Dr. Lam
bert, went over to the Powell cottage,
the newspaper headquarters, to per
sonally meet the reporters and corre
spondents who had been in Groton
since Sunday. He was in extremely
good spirits as he shook each man by
the hand and said a hearty word to
•each. He said:
“I want to thank you, boys, for the
consideration which you have shown
myself and family and for all the
courtesies which have been extended
to me by the press. There has been
such a sudden change in Ted that he
has come up all of a sudden, and he
is now out of the woods.”
Continuing, the president said:
’“Alice will come over from Washing
ton tomorrow to take my place, to a
•certain extent, while Mrs. Roosevelt
will remain here perhaps ten days
more. Then, when Ted is in condi
tion she will take him to the white
house for awhile, but he will return
here jisd continue his studies.”
RABID RACE PREJUDICE.
Whitecaps In Indiana Notify Farmers
Not to Hire Negroes.
At Wheatland, Ind., there is a negro
settlement. The negroes work for
white farmers. All are quiet and in
offensive, but there is a prejudice
against them. The folowing notices,
signed “Fire Bugs,” were found posted
and have produced a sensation:
“Notice is hereby given that any
man who employs negro labor after
the Ist of March, or harbors, leases or
rents lands to any negro, their houses
will be burned after the Ist day of
April.”
REDUCES CAPITAL STOCK.
Cotton Duck Corporation Will Scale
Down Many Millions.
At a meeting of the stockholders of
the United States Cotton Duck Corpo
poration held Friday in Jersey City
the recommendation of the directors
to reduce the capitalization of the cor
poration from $50,000,000 to $30,000,-
000 was adopted . ,
POSSE AND BANDITS
In Desperate Fray Resulting Li
Six Dead and Six Wounded.
BURNED OUT OF BARRICADE
Desperate Gang of Mountaineers Defy
Arrest and Battle to a Finish
•Near Middlesboro,
Kentucky.
Six men are dead and as many more
are dying as the result of a battle be
tween officers from Middlesboro and
mountaineers, says a special to the
Knoxville (Tenn.) Journal and Tri
bune from its Middlesboro, Ky., corre
spondent.
The battle, which was one of the
most desperate affairs of its kind in
tlic history of mountain warfare, oc
‘;Vrred between 4 and 6 o’clock Wed
nesday afternoon at Lee Turner's
“Quarter House” saloon, 3 1-2 miles
from Middlesboro.
Last month Turner had some mules
and other goods levied on in payment
for a debt, and a few nights ago, it is
alleged, he, with others, went to Vir
ginia, whefe the property had been ta
ken, secured what was formerly bis,
aud returned to the “Quarter House.”
Wednesday Deputy Sheriff William
Thompson summoned a posse of ten
or fifteen men for the purpose of ar
resting Turner at his “Quarter House”
saloon. The Louisville and Nashville
refused to convey the officers to the
saloon, and they walked through the.
mountains.
Turner had heard that an attempt
would be made to arrest him, and he
and his men, fifteen in number, gave
the officers a warm reception.
The saloon is well .suited for an at
tack like this. It is built of huge logs
and is surrounded by a 30-foot fence,
in which loop holes are cut, so that
the inmates can shoot outsiders. Tur
ner’s surrender was demanded.
His reply was a round of shot. Char
ley C. Cecil, of Middlesboro, was rid
ing in plain view of the Turner gang.
Someone raised a window of the
log dive and shot Cecil, who fell dead.
Instantly the man at the window
fell back, pierced by a half* dozen
bullets.
Then the firing began in earnest,
the officers scattering and hiding be
hind trees and rocks, and pouring a
galling fire into the mountain for
tress.
In the fight John Doyle, a former
railroad man, was badly wounded, per
haps fatally, and Simon Bean, another
ex-railroader, was shot in tha hand.
The town men gathered closer
around Turner's place, undaunted at
the shots which whizzed around them.
As soon as Cecil was killed his com
ps nions determined to burn Turner’s
rendezvous, and in the midst of the
battle a fellow applied a torch to an
exposed side of the building.
A few minutes later the building was
in flames. Seceral of the mountain
eers came to the window and were
immediately shot down.
The posse surrounded the barricade,
determined to let none escape. Lee
Turner and several of his friends, how
ever, In some manner escaped, and is
now at Mingo mines, eight miles from
Middlesboro. Several of his men per
ished in the flames.
CHARLESTON REASSURED.
President Wires Hopes of Visiting
Exposition at Some Future Date.
President Wagener, of the Charles
ton Exposition Company, received the
following dispatch from President
Roosevelt Wednesday:
“Groton, Mass., February 12.—Presi
dent F. W. Wagener, Charleston.-
Please accept from Mrs. Roosevelt and
myself and in behalf of those who
would have accompanied us to the ex
position, hearty congratulations and
good wishes. We look forward to the
pleasure of visiting Charleston and the
exposition at some fubmj^rfe..
(Signed.)
’ “THEODORE ROO.^tfr/r.”
PRESIDENT IS JOYOUS.
Returns to the White House From
Anxious Visit to Groton.
President Roosevelt returned to the
white house Friday afternoon in a
very happy frame of mind, after five
anxious days at the bedside of his boy.
In his home-coming the president had
a chance to make three short rear car
speeches to the crowd at Worcester,
Woonsocket and Providence.
In each he assured the waiting hun
dreds that “Ted” was all right and
out of the woods, and in each case the
crowd seemed as joyous as the presi
dent and cheered vociferously.
GREAT IS THE LIBERTADOR.
Revolutionary “Tub” Sinks a Vene
zuelan Gun Boat.
A dispatch from Willemstadt, Island
of Curacoa, says: A schooner which
communicated Tuesday with the Vene
zuelan revolutionary steamer Ltbcrta
dor, confirms the report that, the lat
ter sank the Venezuelan gunboat Gen
eral Crespo, recently near Cumarcbo.
The captain and crew of the Crespo
are prisrs on board the Libertador.
BIG BOWLDER SMASHES TRAiN.
Oeven Men Met Ir.stant Death In Pe
culiar Wreck—A Score More Are
More or Lees Injured.
Seven men were killed and at least
fourteen were seriously injured by a
huge bowlder, weighing fifteen tons,
crashing into the caboose of a work
train on the Choctaw, Oklahoma and
Gulf railroad twenty miles west of
Little Rock, Ark., at 1U o'clock Fri
day morning. The work train was
headed west, the engine pushing six
cars and a caboose. As it was passing
along the track under the high bluffs
bordering the river two miles west of
little Maumelle, the crew saw a heavy
rock rolling with awful velocity down
the steep declivity, having been de
tached from the hillside by the rains.
The train was going slowly, but was
almost upon the rock when it struck
the track. Engineer Nazor reversed
his engine at once, but it was so close
upon the obstacle that the train struck
it with almost .full force. The caboose
was at the head of the train, and was
shivered into splinters. Most of the
men who were killed and injured were
in the caboose.
There was a crew of fifty-four men,
white and \olored, and they were go
ing to a point further up the road to
clear a slight wreck. There were just
back of the caboose three cars of
sand, and many of the men were bu
ried underneath the heap of sand
which was thrown forward by the ter
rific impact. Six men are known to
have been killed outright. Three were
left on the scene and three were
removed to Little Rock on the train
that was dispatched to the scene as
soon as (he news could be sent to the
city. Fifteen injured were carried to
Little Rock and are now at St. Vin
cent infirmary. One of the most des
perately injured died on the way to
the hospital from the depot.
It is believed there are others killed
or buried under the sand at the scene
of the wreck, as there are several
missing, and as yet are unaccounted
for. A crew of workmen are clearing
the wreck and looking for the bodies.
FREIGHTS IN COLLISION.
Three Men Killed, Others Injured and
Cars Demolished.
A special from Altoona, Pa., says:
Three men killed, four probably fa
tally and two seriously injured, one
freight train a complete wreck and an
other nearly so, are the results of an
accident Friday morning on the Penn
sylvania railroad on the steep grade
a few miles above the Horseshoe
curve.
Control of the second section of its
castbound train was lost soon after
the other entered the tunnel and two
miles west of Allegrippus it crushed
into the rear of the first section. Ten
cars, the caboose and two engines
were completely wrecked.
DUMONT’S BALLOON COLLAPSED.
Flying Machine “Lands” Aeronaut In
the Sea, But Rescue Was Effected.
A dispatch from Monaco, France
says: Santos Dumont's dirigible bal
loon collapsed at sea Friday after
noon. Dumont was rescued unhurt.
The aeronaut started at 2:30 p. m.,
and was proceeding in the direction of
Cape Martin. When opposite the Ca
hino at Monte Carlo a rent occurred
in the balloon and in less than ten
minutes all the gas had escaped and
the balloon fell into the sea.
Several boats, including the Prince
of Monaco's launch, were following
the balloon and Santos Dumont was
rescued. The balloon sank.
PHILANTHROPIST KILLS HIMSELF
One-Time Wealthy Chicagoan Suicides
to Hide Poverty.
At Chicago Friday Peter Buschwah,
a pioneer real estate dealer, was found
dead in his office. The body sat up
right in a chair with the feet resting
on a desk near by.
When the door w-as opened eight
gas jets were found to be open and the
police therefore claim that Mr. Busch
wah committed suicide. The deceased
at one time was possessed of a for
tune, but of late years is said to have
given it away in charities he could ill
afford.
AND EXPORTS.
Statement Showing Their Value for
the Month of January.
The monthly statement of the im
ports and exports of the United
States for January. 1902, shows as
follows:
Merchandise imports, $79,426,148;
increase as compared with January,
191, $10,000,000; exports, $ 126,023,-
217; decrease, $7,300,000.
Gold imports, $1,404,787; decrease,
$2,800,000; exports, $1,973,675; de
crease, $6,300,000.
Silver imports, $2,127,681; decrease,
$1,000,000; exports, $4,509,213; de
crease. $280,000.
TUSCALOOSA’S LIQUOR SALES.
January Report of Dispensary Busi
ness Made Public.
The dispensary at Tuscaloosa, Ala.,
has made its first monthly report be
fore the mayor and aldermen.
The total cash sales for the month of
January were $6,789.65. The largest
day’s sales were $547.45, on January
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NUMB Kit 12.
UNCERTAIN IS TAFT
Civil Governor of Philippines
Short on Suggestions.
IS PUZZLED OVER SITUATION
Tells Senate Committee That He Real
ly Don’t Know What Is Ocet
Government Policy For
the Islands.
A Washington special says: The
hearing of Governor Taft on the Phil
ippine question by the senate com
mittee Saturday on the Philippines
began with a scries of questions by
Senator Petterson in regard to the fit
ness of Filipinos for jury duty. Mr.
Patterson asked whether the native
population on which the voting fran
chise is bestowed could not !>■ trust
ed to do jury duty. The governor re
plied in the negative, raying they are
so used to corruption in tin adminis
tration of justice that they could not
be trusted.
Referring to the petition of the fed
eral party, Governor Taft said all tho
cases of imprisonment referred to
there were for military and civil of
fenses. Practically there are no civil
prosecutions for political offenses at
this time. Governor Taft said that
the original draft of the federal party
platform had been submitted to tho
commission, and that the declaration
for statehood was then more explicit
than was ultimately adopted.
“My recollection,” lie said, “is that
we said to the representatives of the
party that this must be far in the fu
ture, and that we could make no prom
ise one way or another.”
“Is not the commission responsible
for the formation of the federal par
ty?” asked Senator Dubois.
“No, it was not,” Governor Taft re
sponded.
Senators Patterson, Carmarck and
Culberson asked numerous questions,
based upon the merorial of the federal
party calculated to bring out Governor
Taft’s idea as to what, if any, promise
should be made to the Filipinos in tho
way of government for the future.
Replying to an inquiry from Mr. Pat
terson as to the denunciation in tho
memorial of a colonial form of govern
ment, Governor Taft said the memo
rialists mean just what they say, that
they favor ultimate statehood.
Replying to Mr. Carmack as to tho
wisdom of making the Philippines an
integral part of the United States, the
witness said the condition in the Phil
ippines today is such that the restrue
ton of the constitution of the United
States cannot be safely extended to
those islands.
Governor Taft advocated the estab
lishment of a stable government for
the present, with the understanding
that at some time in the future the
Americans and the Filipinos could
reach an agreement as to what should
be done in the way of government, or
in maintaining relations: “but,” lie
said, “whether the islands should have
their independence, whether they
should be given a quasi independence
or whether they should be made
a state of the union is so far in the fu
ture that I have reached no conclusion.
"The great evil of the present lime
with references to the Philippines is
the current discussion of their future
so long before that can be fixed.”
Replying to a question by Senator
Carmack, he said he would not favor a
promise even of a form of government
such as is given to the territories of
the United States. He also said be was
opposed to extending the constitution
to those islands.
In reply to a number of questions
by Senator McComas, based upon tho
democratic substitute for the Philip
pine tariff bill, Governor Taft said that
to turn the government of the archipel
ago over to the Filipinos as therein
proposed would, In his opinion, result
In anarchy.
He had no doubt, however, that tho
Filipinos could form a government ag
they had done under Aguinaldo.
THIRTY BOLO MEN CAPTURED.
Captain Swaine Makes a Bold Dash
on Camp of Rebels.
Captain W. M. Swaine. of the First
infantry, in engagement with insur
gents at Paranas, island of Sairrar,.re
cently captured thirty bolomeu and
four riflemen. There were no Ameri
can casualties. The enemy's loss is(
not known.
It has been learned that two hours
before the fight General Lukban, the
Insurgent leader, was with the natives
engaged with Captain Swaine’s com
mand.
Negro Deserters Pay Penalty.
The Philippine mail which arrived
at the war department in Washington
Thursday brought the records of the
courtmartial trial and hanging of two
men of troop F, Ninth cavalry (col
ored).
Relief For Tennessee College.
A bill appropriating $6,000- for the
relief of Carson and Newman college
at Jefferson City, Tenn., was passed
by the senate Thursday.